{"id":861,"date":"2021-12-10T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courtneybrown.live-website.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2022-09-03T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T17:53:46","slug":"skin-hunger-2020-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courtney-brown.net\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Skin Hunger (2020-22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Collaboration with Ira Greenberg, Melanie Clemmons (2020-21), and Brent Brimhall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skin Hunger: A Telematic Installation (2022)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/678029329?h=7b73ee0e88&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"980\" height=\"613\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Skin Hunger <\/em>is a web-based interactive system for telematic installation and performance that plays on the zoom-style video-chat that has become ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants can reach across their screens to virtually \u2018touch\u2019 one another.&nbsp; By touching or moving together, participants create virtual organisms and sounds that emerge and evolve from participant relation and interaction, making the intangible connection tangible and giving it life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants can experience the web-based browser version of Skin Hunger by going to <a href=\"https:\/\/skinhunger.org\">https:\/\/skinhunger.org<\/a> and sending a link to a friend to join them. The website requires camera and microphone access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skin Hunger is a collaborative interactive project realized by Courtney Brown, Brent Brimhall, Ira Greenberg, and Melanie Clemmons (2020-21).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skin Hunger (2021)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/605997579?h=c60c05f544&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note from the artist (Courtney Brown):<br>For me, the work begins with my work in interactive Argentine tango social dance, which came to an abrupt pause during the pandemic just as I was planning to introduce my social dance system to the local dance community in Dallas. I had also become interested previously in making musically interactive work for social dance and movement that had a lower barrier to entry than Argentine tango. The aim is to work to encourage participants to move together as one as part of \/ <em>inside<\/em> the music, to connect in an embodied way, as we do in tango, but accessible for the complete dance novice and in the isolated context of the pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Collaboration with Ira Greenberg, Melanie Clemmons (2020-21), and Brent Brimhall Skin Hunger is a web-based interactive system for telematic installation and performance that plays on the zoom-style video-chat that has become ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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